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11-letter words containing s, p, a, t, e, r

  • spermaphyte — the placenta of a plant
  • spermatheca — a small sac or cavity in female or hermaphroditic invertebrates used to store sperm for fertilizing eggs, as in the queen bee.
  • spermatoxic — (of a substance) toxic to spermatozoa.
  • spermatoxin — a substance toxic to spermatozoa.
  • spermatozoa — one of the minute, usually actively motile gametes in semen, which serve to fertilize the ovum; a mature male reproductive cell.
  • spessartite — Mineralogy. a yellow or red manganese-aluminum garnet, used as a semiprecious gem.
  • spheroplast — a Gram-negative bacterial cell with a cell wall that has been altered or is partly missing, resulting in a spherical shape.
  • spinsterial — relating to a spinster
  • spinsterian — relating to a spinster
  • spirit cave — an archaeological site in Thailand that has produced evidence of very early plant domestication in Southeast Asia, dated c7000 b.c.
  • spirit lake — a lake in SW Washington, at the N foot of Mount St. Helens: site of devastation during 1980 eruptions of Mount St. Helens.
  • spirochaete — any of various spiral-shaped motile bacteria of the family Spirochaetaceae, certain species, as Treponema, Leptospira, and Borrelia, being pathogenic to humans and other animals, and other species being free-living, saprophytic, or parasitic.
  • sports page — newspaper page carrying sports results
  • sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
  • spot market — a market in which commodities, as grain, gold, or crude oil, are dealt in for cash and immediate delivery (distinguished from futures market).
  • spotted ray — any of various species of ray with irregular markings on the back
  • spreadsheet — Accounting. a worksheet that is arranged in the manner of a mathematical matrix and contains a multicolumn analysis of related entries for easy reference on a single sheet.
  • sprezzatura — effortlessness or ease, esp. in art or literature; careless grace; nonchalance
  • spring rate — The spring rate is a measurement of the amount of force needed to compress a spring a particular distance.
  • springwater — water from a spring
  • sprite crab — ghost crab.
  • standpatter — a person who refuses to consider or accept change.
  • star-shaped — of the shape of or like a star.
  • stauroscope — an optical instrument for studying the crystal structure of minerals under polarized light
  • stearoptene — the oxygenated solid part of an essential oil (opposed to eleoptene).
  • stench trap — a trap in a sewer that by means of a water seal prevents the upward passage of foul-smelling gases
  • stenography — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • step-parent — a stepfather or stepmother.
  • stepanakert — a city in and the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, within Azerbaijan.
  • stereograph — a single or double picture for a stereoscope.
  • stevengraph — a small picture woven in colored silk thread: introduced in 1879 and mass-produced on a Jacquard-type loom.
  • stewardship — the position and duties of a steward, a person who acts as the surrogate of another or others, especially by managing property, financial affairs, an estate, etc.
  • stipendiary — receiving a stipend; performing services for regular pay.
  • strandloper — a member of an extinct tribe of Khoikhoi or Bushmen who lived on seafood gathered on the beaches of southern Africa
  • strap hinge — a hinge having a flap, especially a long one, attached to one face of a door or the like.
  • strap-hinge — a hinge having a flap, especially a long one, attached to one face of a door or the like.
  • straphanger — a passenger who stands in a crowded bus or subway train and holds onto a strap or other support suspended from above.
  • stratopause — the boundary or transition layer between the stratosphere and mesosphere.
  • streetscape — a pictorial view of a street.
  • strip steak — cut of beef: sirloin
  • stripteaser — stripper (def 3).
  • stroke play — medal play.
  • super-earth — a hypothetical planet larger than the earth but smaller than the four gas giants Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus, thought to be orbiting the sun beyond the Kuiper belt but nearer than the Oort cloud: its existence is suggested by two known dwarf planets in a similar orbit
  • superactive — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
  • superaltern — a universal proposition that is the basis for the immediate inference of a corresponding particular proposition.
  • superdainty — very dainty
  • superfatted — (of soap) containing excess fat that has not been converted into soap by saponification
  • superheated — If a liquid is superheated, it has been heated to a temperature that is higher than its boiling point without being allowed to boil.
  • superjacent — lying above or upon something else.
  • superlative — of the highest kind, quality, or order; surpassing all else or others; supreme; extreme: superlative wisdom.
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